Privacy Policy

Information Gathering

This site does not collect personal information, or personally identifiable information, from those who browse it. Any information submitted through the contact form will be kept securely and not disseminated unless compelled to do so by the Law. Any confidential information submitted without prior consent cannot be guaranteed safe, and is understood not to be bound by any Non Disclosure Agreement unless agreed beforehand. If you want to discuss a project with me, please get in touch first, and discuss it through secure channels where we can both be protected.

I do use some services such as Google Analytics to ensure that I maintain a high quality of service for people browsing the site. This information is only used to evaluate the popularity of articles, and ensure that the site remains responsive around the world.

Cookies

This site uses 3rd party cookies to enable some functionality, such as tracking page responsiveness and popularity. Some cookies are also set by additional 3rd party companies whose services are used for functions such as displaying adverts and handling comments on blog posts. Cookies are currently essential for the smooth operation of these services, and thus  anyone using this website after the initial pageview agrees to the placing on their computer of the cookies outlined below. Continuing to use the website constitutes consent. If you don’t want cookies, then browsing the website content using an RSS reader is suggested. Ultimately, this is a tech industry website, and anyone browsing this who is au fait with the concepts should understand that the EU Cookie Law is ill considered and daft. This website does fully support Do Not Track however, as it is a much better technology – if your browser is configured for Do Not Track, this website will honour that setting.

Cookie List

Cookie NameCookie CategoryDescriptionDuration
wordpress_2WordPress cookie for a logged in user.session
wordpress_logged_in_2WordPress cookie for a logged in usersession
wordpress_test_2WordPress cookie for a logged in usersession
wordpress_test_cookie2WordPress test cookiesession
wp-settings-1Wordpress also sets a few wp-settings-[UID] cookies. The number on the end is your individual user ID from the users database table. This is used to customize your view of admin interface, and possibly also the main site interface. 1 year
wp-settings-time-2Wordpress also sets a few wp-settings-{time}-[UID] cookies. The number on the end is your individual user ID from the users database table. This is used to customize your view of admin interface, and possibly also the main site interface. 1 year
PHPSESSID1To identify your unique session on the websitesession
SESS1To ensure that you are recognised when you move from page to page within the site and that any information you have entered is remembered.session
__utma2This cookie keeps track of the number of times a visitor has been to the site pertaining to the cookie, when their first visit was, and when their last visit occurred. Google Analytics uses the information from this cookie to calculate things like Days and Visits to purchase.permanent
__utmb2__utmb is a Google Analytics cookie. It takes a timestamp of the exact moment in time when a visitor enters a site.session
__utmc2__utmc takes a timestamp of the exact moment in time when a visitor leaves a site.30 mins
__utmz2Keeps track of where the visitor came from, what search engine you used, what link you clicked on, what keyword you used, and where they were in the world when you accessed a website. This cookie is how Google Analytics knows to whom and to what source / medium / keyword to assign the credit for a Goal Conversion or an Ecommerce Transaction. 6 months